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This 5 page paper discusses the tragedies faced in the plays Oedipus the King (Oedipus Rex) by Sophocles and Death of a Salesman b...

four and five provide additional support for this hypothesis; the boys father, who usually "takes funerals in stride" is "crying"....

In six pages this paper examines the tragic heroes represented by William Shakespeare's title protagonist Hamlet and Willy Loman i...

play, if we only look at the man, Willy Loman, and examine him from his perspective, concerning his hopes and desires for himself ...

in his society. Sometimes he is one who has been displaced from it, sometimes one who seeks to attain it for the first time, but ...

This paper presents different attitudes regarding age as reflected in Miss Brill by Katherine Mansfield, The Sandbox by Edward Alb...

"actresses" that make up the whole of the Sunday scene. She is in this mood when a young couple sit down close to her. She imagi...

In 5 pages these 20th century writers and thinkers are examined regarding their interpretations of identity and life's meaning in ...

modeled after his own life and experiences, including his relationship with the tormented Marilyn Monroe; however, Miller has neve...

we know Frank would have fired him long ago, or at the very least, not promoted him. In this we see Willy blaming his new boss for...

included intelligence, depth, compassion, and integrity. It was now a dream that focused primarily on material success and the dre...

importance to his life, telling her, "Youre my foundation and my support" (18). Everything he did was ultimately rooted in love f...

us are perhaps afraid to pursue the thing that would make us the most happy but is likely to also be the most risky. We may fear ...

timeless quality and subject matter. It is also interesting to note that despite the plays relevance to American society, it wa...

dramatic action by the end of the play (cathartic release), and falls into two parts comprising a complication and a d?nouement(El...

to gain his own independence despite his fathers quelling influence; however, this is never to be for the thirty-four-year-old ner...

Loman has limited intelligence or at least that seems to be the case; the point is arguable however. The story itself, as origin...

is that so many people believe in ideals like Willys. In the end, what is show is that a man with so much potential ends up losing...

a tragic character as he remembers events from his past and why things went wrong. Through this process, he seems to be losing tou...

finally come to terms with the reality of the situation. Happy, of course, is a chip off the old block, confined into his narrow a...

of how they look at the world. For the two sons this image is different. Biff is the intelligent brother who is often angered a...

love, but have to ultimately abide by their previous obligations, as they are both happily married. Death of a Salesman (1985, pro...

that they are constantly losing, for many losers keep plugging away. And, if they constantly plug away, with good intentions and p...

deal of understanding in this particular line. We note that the staging is "smart" which tells us that the staging is perhaps cris...

in his own quest to find his own American Dream, squanders an inheritance on a one-shot deal that goes bad. And in the old adage t...

by some serious flaw of character and/or judgment," with the ultimate goal being to inspire either pity or fear in the audience (K...

bowling alley, she refuses to have her brother-in-law see her yet: ""Oh no, no, no. I wont be looked at in this merciless glare" (...

may very well lie in the study of some of the most earliest of heroes from the texts of Homer and Plato. By far one of the most en...

play, I think, and maybe that is what does it. We are faced with the spectacle of all that love being lost on someone who can t r...

the span of a day comes face-to-face with the realization that the American Dream has become a nightmare of his own making, that t...